Job Chapter 39 verse 26 Holy Bible
Is it by thy wisdom that the hawk soareth, (And) stretcheth her wings toward the south?
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The bow is sounding against him; he sees the shining point of spear and arrow.
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Doth the hawk fly by thine intelligence, [and] stretch his wings toward the south?
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Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south?
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The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield.
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"Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, And stretches her wings toward the south?
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By thine understanding flieth a hawk? Spreadeth he his wings to the south?
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 26. - Doth the hawk fly (or, soar) by thy wisdom? The hawk's strength of wing is extraordinary, and one of the greatest of natural marvels. Can Job claim to have contrived it? Many as have been the attempts made, human ingenuity has not yet devised anything that can fly. And stretch her wings toward the south? Migrate, i.e., when winter approaches, to the warmer southern regions. Few things in nature are more remarkable than the instinct of migratory birds.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(26) Doth the hawk fly?--The more symmetrical order of these descriptions would be for the ostrich to have come after the war-horse and before the hawk; in that case there would have been a gradual transition from the fleetest of quadrupeds to the fleetest of birds by means of the ostrich, which, though winged like a bird, cannot use its wings as birds do, but only run on the ground like a quadruped.
